Yep, once the hydraulics went the turret couldn’t be rotated to let him out…..I believe the parachute was built into the flying suit as well because of the limited room in the turret.….now if you want to see a really bad design of a turreted fighter, look at the Blackburn Rocthks all .. reading up about the plan before i started it showed that being the gunner was not for the faint hearted .. the chances of being able to bale out if the plane was going down was pretty much nil. Different calibre of person back in those days for sure .......
I actually heard it could out turn a hurricane....as you say forward firing guns might have made a difference...but we'll never know...Very nice work. Love the wear on the entry side especially. Not a successful design, but might have been more effective if it could have been fitted with front guns as well as the turret. Apparently it could turn as well as a Hurricane .
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